Thursday, December 2, 2010

Win an Exadata Database Machine!

Wouldn't it be nice to have one of these bad-boys in your home office though?

That was my original thought when I posed the question to The Twitter.

After a few replies I realized the absurdity of my thought to have my own private Exadata.

What about small businesses though? Non-profits doing research?

Wouldn't that be a great PR move? A way to give back to the community.

I have ulterior motives, of course. I may be helping out a friend on a database for autism research. If you don't know already, my daughter was recently diagnosed withPDD-NOS, which is...well, it's sort-of autism. I just call it autism though so I don't have to go into the details.

Wouldn't it be great to build out something like that on top of the latest, and greatest, hardware/software combination around? For kicks, I could ask about OBIEE as the reporting layer. (See how selfish I am?)

Anyway, just an idea. I'm full of ideas (or shit as most would say).

What do you think? I'm sure Oracle has tons of charities or causes they support. Would this be a worthwhile cause for Oracle?

13 comments:

I think most charities would rather have the money, but Oracle would definitely build a lot of positive buzz with a major product donation like that. Especially if they threw in 5 years free maintenance and a week of custom consulting for setting it up.

Imagine the returns something like that could have for cancer research where the amount of data to be churned and the number of researchers...

License would have to be included of course. What is it? 20% a year or there-about?

hehe...I've been pestering the Oracle folks for a little over a year now to do something similar to apex.oracle.com (which I love!). At first, it was a trade secret thing, which made sense because it was so new. Now though?

Of course I don't know how it could be managed...but that's not the point.

One of the reasons I really enjoy Oracle is that you can download all of their software and learn it yourself...Exadata, well you can't download hardware. Would be nice if you could POC something to show your boss wouldn't it?

I've heard there are VMs (with the obvious performance gains) internally at Oracle. I've been arguing for some sort of happy medium...give us the VMs or give us something like apex.oracle.com so we can test it out.